How would you feel if someone paraphrased your hub into their own?
If you write a hub & a few days later, one of your followers writes a strikingly similar hub, how would you react? This has happened to me 6 times to date.
I'd flag it and send it to staff for review. Or I might chuckle.
I get hub flags for duplicate content. Why don't they? I flag their hub and never hear anything back from hubpages. Yet their hub stays after I flag it. It isn't fair. I updated a hub I wrote a year ago with photos, and it got flagged for duplicate content. I searched w/plagarism tool and found a follower who wrote hub just last week. Yet mine is over a year old, content not changed, just updated with photos to draw traffic. Not one word was changed, not even in summary. I am hurt and do not think it is fair that I should be flagged when mine was pubbed first. :-(
Yeah, it happens to me too. Just make your hub better with photos, videos, polls, etc and hopefully they won't be able to steal your traffic. I was bummed when I saw someone do it the first time, but comforted myself with the saying, "Imitation is the best form of flattery."
Edit: As for flags, contact HP through email and explain the situation. They will understand and will probably republish your hub.
I agree with Wesman, this is not acceptable. We work hard on our hubs and I hate to think of someone stealing our work. Definitely flag it and report to the staff.
by protjack 15 years ago
Hi,this Hub of mine:http://hubpages.com/hub/Haiku-poem-Coca-Colahas been flagged as substandard (or in danger of becoming one or whatever). The Hub is a poem with a video clip. That's all that that Hub is supposed to contain, nothing more and nothing elseand your engine thinks it's lacking content...
by Kate Daily 3 years ago
Just curious, but does anyone have experience with this? How'd you do it? Did you tell Google the article moved somehow or do anything else fancy? Or did you just copy, paste, delete from HubPages, and wait for Google to catch up?Im guessing there might be some duplicate content penalties from...
by Joseph Addams 15 years ago
I was just checking my stats when I noticed that a hub I published on 1-7-07 has been flagged and incurring a HP penalty for duplicate content. It's my highest earning hub and HP giving me a penalty-and then asking me to wait 72 hours for a review on something I published a year ago is...
by ga anderson 11 years ago
wanted to rant - but thought maybe I could br wrong, and some community feedback might show me the errors I am missingThe story:I had a hub unpublished as duplicateI did not think it was so I contacted HP teamfound out they considered the author's resource box as dupe - so I edited itresubmitted...
by Nell Rose 12 years ago
I have just written a hub last night, about a singer, who has never been written about before, apart from on her own YouTube site, and I have been wacked with a duplicate warning and unpublished!!! How on earth can it be duplicate when the whole hub came out of my brain? On top of this it says it...
by Lily Rose 13 years ago
Ocassionally I like to try and "do my part" and I do some hub hopping. My question about is, how broad is the definition of spam? For example, I see hubs written all the time that are relatively short and appear to just be a "commercial" of sorts for the writers, or...
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